Is it time for me to upgrade my graphics

[Woody...!!!]

I have a 9800 GX2

i have just started to play games again, so is it time to upgrade

the rest of my spec is

asus maximus extreme x38
Q6600 at stock
4gb ram

i think that covers most of the important things

 

[psychas]

depends what resolution u play 9800gx2 should handle all games out there at moment so i doubt u see much improvement.

in other case i can see were u coming from your cpu bottlenecking your gpu, try overcloking it.

u will see some nice improvements if u can get your cpu to 3.4 ghz maybe more if u can.

and it is virtually free upgrade

 

[Skidder]

Presumably you know whether you are happy with the performance you are getting at whatever reasolution you play at? Armed with that, you also presumably know whether or not it's time to upgrade.

Also, why leave that q6600 at stock clocks, even your current card would probably perform better if you clocked it higher. I see significant performance boost in crysis benchmark until i hit about 3.4 and then it trails off.

edit: psychas got there first!

 

[HeX]

Yup just to echo what others have said, you are limiting your current card by not overclocking your Q6600.

Even just taking it to a conservative 3-3.2GHz will really boost your graphics performance.

 

[Woody...!!!]

Is a GTX 285 a updated 9800 GX2

 

[psychas]

Is a GTX 285 a updated 9800 GX2

no 285 is a single card 9800gx2 is dual card.

did u not overclock your cpu as we told you?. it will be a waste as u see minor improvement if u upgrade a card.

i will bottleneck your cpu

 

[bledd]

agreed

overclock cpu to 3ghz, that is doable with all just by simply upping the FSB a notch. perfect stability too

 

[Woody...!!!]

no 285 is a single card 9800gx2 is dual card.

did u not overclock your cpu as we told you?. it will be a waste as u see minor improvement if u upgrade a card.

i will bottleneck your cpu

Hi, yes i have overclocked my cpu, by using asus's bios util, "cpu up" should i leave it that way or should i do it the FSB way

 

[Woody...!!!]

agreed

overclock cpu to 3ghz, that is doable with all just by simply upping the FSB a notch. perfect stability too

As above Bledd

which way should i do it

 

[Woody...!!!]

Sorry guys also i am thinking in the next week or 2, of getting an I7 720 DO, and a gigabyte ud5 mobo

 

[Jono8]

Unless you get 2x 260's , 2x 4870's or a GTX 295 i doubt you are going to see huge performance gains.

 

[Woody...!!!]

Unless you get 2x 260's , 2x 4870's or a GTX 295 i doubt you are going to see huge performance gains.

ok thank you